The pattern, not the person.
Behavioral risk in acquisitions, integrations and transformations.
The SHIELD Method is a framework for recognizing and changing destructive behavioral patterns in organizations. Five Signal Assessment is built on it. It measures those patterns and turns them into risk you can act on.
Why it exists
Behavioral risk is the risk most deals and transformations leave unmeasured. It feels too personal to touch and too vague to price. Yet that is where value is lost, in the patterns a group carries through every change.
Behavioral due diligence measures those patterns. The SHIELD Method turns the result into a plan the board and the leadership team can act on.
Who it's for
Owners, boards and executive teams facing a major acquisition, integration or transformation, when the pressure on the organization is highest.
Nathalie Bishop
Nathalie Bishop has led integrations after acquisitions. She built the method and the instrument she needed in that work, and could not find. She has served as CEO and as an HR executive.
In executive HR roles, she saw the same results return after every restructuring. She saw two seemingly healthy organizations produce a worse one after a merger. She looked for a way to measure the patterns that survive structural change. There was none. That gap became The SHIELD Method, and later Five Signal Assessment.
Today she works as an advisor and executive coach, specializing in behavioral risk in acquisitions, mergers and major transformations.
“Patterns outlive people. I’ve never been interested in blaming one person for a collective result. How, not who. When the risk is measured as a whole, the whole organization can change the outcome.”
Former host of the podcast Jakten på det goda ledarskapet. Guest on Omtankepodden and the Great Place to Work podcast. Speaker at a Great Place to Work event and at corporate leadership conferences.
Five Signal Assessment by The SHIELD Method™ is a behavioral due diligence that measures destructive patterns in leadership and organizations through five signals: Visibility, Emotion, Leadership, Organization and Narrative.
Behavioral due diligence measures the collective patterns in how an organization acts under pressure, before or after a transaction or a major transformation, to find the destructive ones that put value at risk.
Behavioral risk lies in the collective patterns of an organization that erode the value a deal or a transformation was meant to create.
Who founded The SHIELD Method?
Nathalie Bishop founded The SHIELD Method and built Five Signal Assessment, which measures behavioral risk in acquisitions, integrations and transformations.
What is behavioral due diligence?
Behavioral due diligence measures the collective patterns in how an organization acts under pressure, before or after a transaction or a major transformation, to find the destructive ones that put value at risk.
What is behavioral risk?
Behavioral risk lies in the collective patterns of an organization that erode the value a deal or a transformation was meant to create.